{"id":18653,"date":"2012-06-04T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T04:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=18653"},"modified":"2012-06-04T13:29:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T04:29:57","slug":"132957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=18653","title":{"rendered":"FIRST PHOTOS FROM MENTAWAI!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\"><a href='https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6027.jpg' title='IMG_6027'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6027.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium\" alt=\"IMG_6027.jpg\" title=\"IMG_6027\" \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_4908.jpg' title='IMG_4908'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_4908.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium\" alt=\"IMG_4908.jpg\" title=\"IMG_4908\" \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5624.jpg' title='IMG_5624'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5624.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium\" alt=\"IMG_5624.jpg\" title=\"IMG_5624\" \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6654.jpg' title='IMG_6654'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6654.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium\" alt=\"IMG_6654.jpg\" title=\"IMG_6654\" \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5356.jpg' title='IMG_5356'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5356.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium\" alt=\"IMG_5356.jpg\" title=\"IMG_5356\" \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5178.jpg' title='IMG_5178'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5178.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium\" alt=\"IMG_5178.jpg\" title=\"IMG_5178\" \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5108.jpg' title='IMG_5108'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5108.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium\" alt=\"IMG_5108.jpg\" title=\"IMG_5108\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>salemat pagi!  after our first nightmare day, we finally got here to the<br \/>\nmentawai islands and guess what?  the waves are good!  surfed lances<br \/>\nlefts, bintangs, ht&#8217;s, and macaroni&#8217;s.  it&#8217;s day 5 of 11 days and so<br \/>\nmany good waves have been ridden, and so many experiences happened.<br \/>\nhere is a sneak peak of some photos i took so far.  yeah, i shot over<br \/>\n2000 photos.  like usual, it&#8217;s been really busy here for me.  surfing,<br \/>\nshooting, diving, and talking.  not too much time for naps and so far,<br \/>\nmy body feels like going and going!  no stop!<br \/>\nhere are some captions for these photos.<br \/>\nphoto 1:  Ayaka Suzuki.  this was our first session at Lances Rights.<br \/>\ni&#8217;d call this wave 6-8&#8242; hawaiian scale.  big wave for such a young 16<br \/>\nyear old girl.  this girl charges!<br \/>\nphoto 2:  it&#8217;s these 4 young girls first time to mentawai, and first<br \/>\nboat trip ever.  the first night, their faces didn&#8217;t look like this.  it<br \/>\ntook a day and a jump in the ocean to overcome their sea sickness.  from<br \/>\nnow on, it&#8217;s all fun!<br \/>\nphoto 3:  toda-san was the first japanese stand up paddler ever to come<br \/>\nto the mentawai&#8217;s.  he looks pretty comfortable out on this giant set!<br \/>\nphoto 4:  i remember pushing this young girl into waves at kewalo&#8217;s on<br \/>\nher first trip to hawaii.  Reika Noro surely grew up into a fine young<br \/>\nsurfer.  at 17 years old, her career has just started.  i bet anybody<br \/>\nthis girl will be japan&#8217;s champion in the next few years.  watch out.<br \/>\nphoto 5:  we caught 2 big fish by the fishing pole, and about 10 or so<br \/>\non our speargun.  sashimi everynight?  yes, and poke too!<br \/>\nphoto 6:  this is the favorite part of my day.  watching the sunset,<br \/>\neating sashimi, sipping on a bintang, and talking to the coolest people<br \/>\nin the world.  yes, we come from all ages and all walks of life, but we<br \/>\nare all here for the same reason.  to surf, relax, and have fun!<br \/>\nphoto 7:  scored some clean water at bintangs for some underwater<br \/>\nfisheye.  super cool world which i love!<br \/>\nanyway, sitting here at macaroni&#8217;s resort buying wifi.  after i send<br \/>\nthis blog, i&#8217;m back to the boat and pulling into one of the most perfect<br \/>\nleft barrels in the world.  great life!   be back at next wifi spot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-end\"> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>salemat pagi! after our first nightmare day, we finally got here to the mentawai islands and guess what? the waves are good! surfed lances lefts, bintangs, ht&#8217;s, and macaroni&#8217;s. it&#8217;s day 5 of 11 days and so many good waves have been ridden, and so many experiences happened. here is a sneak peak of some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}